In Figure a box of ant aunts (total mass m₁= 1.65 kg) and a box of ant uncles (total mass m₂= 3.30 kg) slide down an inclined plane while attached by a mass less rod parallel to the plane. The angle of incline is θ = 30.0^o. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the aunt box and the incline is ?₁= 0.226; that between the uncle box and the incline is ?₂= 0.113. Compute ?

(a) The tension in the rod and

(b) The magnitude of the common acceleration of the two boxes.

(c) How would the answers to (a) and (b) change if the uncles trailed the aunts?

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